J. Clifford Dyer wrote:
> Alistair King wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a simple way of creating global variables within a function?
>>
>> ive tried simply adding the variables in:
>>
>> def function(atom, Xaa, Xab):
>> Xaa = onefunction(atom)
>> Xab = anotherfunction(atom)
>>
>> if i can give something like:
>>
>> function('C') #where atom = 'C' but not necessarly include Xaa or Xab
>>
>> i would like to recieve:
>>
>> Caa = a float
>> Cab = another float
>>
>> ive tried predefining Xaa and Xab before the function but they are
>> global values and wont change within my function. Is there a simple way
>> round this, even if i call the function with the variables ('C', Caa, Cab)?
>>
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>>
>> some actual code:
>>
>> # sample dictionaries
>> DS1v = {'C': 6}
>> pt = {'C': 12.0107}
>>
>> def monoVarcalc(atom):
>> a = atom + 'aa'
>> Xaa = a.strip('\'')
>> m = atom + 'ma'
>> Xma = m.strip('\'')
>> Xaa = DS1v.get(atom)
>> Xma = pt.get(atom)
>> print Xma
>> print Xaa
>>
>> monoVarcalc('C')
>>
>> print Caa
>> print Cma
>>
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>> it seems to work but again i can only print the values of Xma and Xaa
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Alistair
>>
>>
>
> I suspect you are misusing the concept of a function. In most basic
> cases, and I suspect your case applies just as well as most, a function
> should take arguments and return results, with no other communication
> between the calling code and the function itself. When you are inside
> your function don't worry about the names of the variables outside. I'm
> not sure exactly where your floats are coming from, but try something
> like this:
>
> >>> def monoVarCalc(relevant_data):
> ... float1 = relevant_data * 42.0
> ... float2 = relevant_data / 23.0
> ... return float1, float2
>
> >>> C = 2001
> >>> Caa, Cab = monoVarCalc(C)
> >>> Caa
> 84042.0
> >>> Cab
> 87.0
>
> Notice that you don't need to use the variable C (or much less the
> string "C", inside monoVarCalc at all. It gets bound to the name
> relevant_data instead.
>
> Also, if you are going to have a lot of these little results lying
> around, (Cab, Cac ... Czy, Czz), you might consider making them a list
> or a dictionary instead. I won't tell you how to do that, though. The
> online tutorial has plenty of information on that.
>
> http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
>
>
> Cheers,
> Cliff
>
this worked a treat:
def monoVarcalc(atom):
a = atom + 'aa'
Xaa = a.strip('\'')
m = atom + 'ma'
Xma = m.strip('\'')
Xaa = DS1v.get(atom)
Xma = pt.get(atom)
return Xaa, Xma
Caa, Cma = monoVarcalc('C')
thanks
Ali
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